Man accused in Western Kentucky hospital assaults

Police caught a Western Kentucky man armed with two semiautomatic rifles who is accused of assaulting Livingston County Hospital workers and threatening to kill nurses and to shoot a deputy.

Kentucky State Police said in a news release that Kenneth Fitzgerald, 26, was located in a wooded area in Caldwell County on Friday evening and was found with two rifles and marijuana.

WPSD-TV in Paducah reported that the Livingston County sheriff's office said Fitzgerald is accused of assaulting three workers at the hospital Thursday evening. He later called to say he was going to shoot nurses as they walked to their cars, and his family told police he said he was going to shoot a sheriff's deputy.

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Man accused in Western Kentucky hospital assaults

Police caught a Western Kentucky man armed with two semi-automatic rifles who is accused of assaulting Livingston County Hospital workers and threatening to kill nurses and to shoot a deputy.